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The Social Side of Wellbeing – an extract from Contextual Wellbeing By Dr Helen Street
(this is an extract from: Street, Helen (2018) Contextual Wellbeing: creating positive schools from the inside out, published by Wise Solutions) … It could…
Education 2020 – The Precious Things We have Lost and Found Dr Helen Street, Founder of the Positive Schools Initiative & author of Contextual Wellbeing
In this article I offer my thoughts on the impact of the Coronavirus and COVID-19 restrictions on social, emotional and academic learning in 2020….
Why Schools Need to Spend Less Time Thinking About Students (and More Time Thinking About Culture) Dr Helen Street
www.contextualwellbeing.com.au; www.positiveschools.com.au Over the past twenty years, there has been an increasing consideration of the role schools can, and indeed ‘should’ play in…
Contextual Wellbeing: Creating healthy school contexts to nurture flourishing students and staff By Dr Helen Street
Contextual Wellbeing is a systems-based approach to supporting equitable education, youth wellbeing and self-determination in all schools and colleges through the development of a…
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School-based Rites of Passage. Dr Arne Rubinstein
How Rites of Passage can be used in schools to support educational and emotional development Dr Arne Rubinstein True story 1: I’m…
Secrets of Successful Teaching. Maggie Dent
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GGS Workshop – Living well and teaching well – David Bott
GGS Workshop – Living well and teaching well – David Bott
GGS Presentation – Building Positive Relationships – Justin Robinson
GGS Presentation – Building Positive Relationships – Justin Robinson
Mindfulness is Good for Children By Rodney Harris – Open Leaves Books
Open Leaves Books is an Australian owned and operated business with 30+ years experience focusing on counselling and mental health books. There…
Reasons Not to Travel on the Pathway to Perfection By Dr Sue Roffey
My brother once got 99 per cent in a maths test. He came home pleased with himself until dad said “what went wrong then?” …
Safe Schools Coalition – proud to create change in schools
Safe Schools Coalition has made it to WA! Safe Schools Coalition began in 2010 in Victoria and in 2013 Foundation for Young Australians (FYA)…
Classroom engagement and the search for meaning By Dr Fenny Muliadi
A lack of interest and engagement in ongoing classroom activities have repeatedly been found to have a negative effect on children’s learning experience and…
Classroom Glue By Dr Helen Street
Class cohesion describes the social and emotional ‘glue’ that binds students and teachers together in a learning environment. If class cohesion is weak, both…
IMPROVING STUDENT PERFORMANCE WITH SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL) By Luke McKenna
“In too many classrooms and schools, children are missing a critical piece of their education. Year after year, and test after test, students and…
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A wide, wonderful window of opportunity exists to engage children with positive Mindful possibilities. Creative opportunities for children, of all ages, to nurture the…
Storytelling for the elephant in the room by Batyr
Stories are everywhere. They draw people together and hold an enormous capacity to evoke connection and create change. It is how humans interact and…
The Seven Types of Tricky Students & how to engage them (& lead them towards success) by Andrew Fuller
Despite what you may think, the seven types of tricky students don’t include grumpy, sleepy, cranky or dozy. However there are predictable types and…
Pathways to Resilience by Andrew Fuller and Andrew Wicking
Creating Safe, Happy and Fulfilling Lives Building resilience involves creating the three things every parent wants for their children and every teacher wants for…
From ‘can’t do’ to ‘can do’ by Andrew Fuller
Research has proven Henry Ford correct when he said, “whether you think you can or that you can’t, you are usually right”. Helping young…
SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE VALUE OF HIGH QUALITY CONNECTIONS A/PROFESSOR SUE ROFFEY
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Circles Grow Solutionaries – kids with answers to things that matter! The ASPIRE principles for effective social and emotional learning Dr Sue Roffey Children…
THE DOUBLE HELIX OF SUCCESS by Lim Lai Cheng
Positive Schools Singapore 2015 Lim Lai Cheng Institute for Societal Leadership Singapore Management University slides available for download …
Homework – the good, the bad and the undecided by Dr Helen Street
How much homework do you expect the kids in your school or class to do each week? How much time do you…
Voices for Living Project. Report now out!
Voices for Living Project Click to Download!!! Findings provide significant support for key aspects of positive education
Positive Schools Singapore International Positive Education Conference November 2015
The first ever International Singaporean conference is being held at The United World College of South East Asia on 6th and 7th November 2015. Please visit…
Australian Positive Schools 2016 Conference. Building Positive Relationships with Cohesion, Communication, Community. Save the Dates!
Positive Schools 2016 – mental health and wellbeing conferences. When we asked Australian staff and students what makes education positive and engaging, they told…